Match-machine.



No. 664,642. Patented Dec. 25, I900. W. F. HUTCHINSON.

MATCH MACHINE.

(Application filed Aug. 23, 1900.)

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ATTORNEY No. 664,642. Patented Dec. '25, 1900.

W. F. HUTCHINSUN.

MATCH MACHINE.

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INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. HUTOHINSON, OF BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE ATLASMATCH COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

MATCH-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 664,642, d t d D c b r25, 1900.

Application filed August 23, 1900. Serial No. 27,762. (No model.)

T @ZZ wh y n n: the stock into the cutters. Fig. is a detail Be it knownthat 1, WILLIAM F. HUTOHIN- cross-section through the cutters and showsSON, of Bound Brook, Somerset county, New the mechanism for guiding thesplints and for Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful preventingthem from following the cutters 5 Improvements in Match-Machines, ofwhich in their rotation. Fig. 6 is a detail side ele- 55 the followingis a full, clear, and exact devation of one of the cutters and thesplint scription. guiding or ejecting device; and Fig. 7 is a Myinvention relates to improvements-in broken detail perspective Viewshowing the match-machines. means for tightening the slats of thedipping- 10 One object of my invention is to produce a frame, so thatthey will clamp the match- 60 machine which cuts match-splints withoutsplints between them. waste, which is adapted to deliver the splint-sThe machine is provided with rotary cutrapidly and uniformly into anordinary match ters 10, which are of a well-known type and holding ordipping frame,which has automatic need no detailed description, thecutters bemeans for fastening the splints in place, and, ing spacedapart the width of a match-splint 65 also to produce aguideplate whichwill hold, and the edges of one set of cutters overlapguide, andseparate splints so that they will ping those of the other set, as shownbest in bespaced correct-lyinthedipping-frames,and, Fig. 5, and thisarrangement causes a strip further, to make this guide-plate a heatingofveneer orstock when fedtransverselydownplate also, which will not onlythoroughly ward between the cutters to be cut into a se- 70 heat or charthe match ends, but will also enries of splints, as hereinafterdescribed and compass and quickly heat and dry the greater as wellunderstood. The cutters 10 are carportion of each match-splint. ried bytransverse shafts 11, which at one end Another object of my invention isto make are geared together by gears 12, so that they a machine of thischaracter which is very will rotate oppositely and in unison, while 75positive in operation and adapted to work one gear 12 is driven by anidler 13, which in .continuously without great care on the part turn isdriven by the gear 14 on the main drivof the operator. ing-shaft 15,this being driven by a pulley 16 To these ends my invention consists ofa or equivalent driving device. The above apmatch-machine theconstruction and arrangeparatus is suitably mounted on a supporting 8oment of which will be hereinafter fully deframe 17 and no noveltywhatever is claimed scribed and claimed. for it. Above the cutters 10 isa suitable Reference is to be had to the accompanying hopper 18, whichis supported, as shown, on drawings, forming part of this specification,cross-rods 18, and this carries the stock 19,

in which similar figures of reference refer to which, as illustrated,represents strips of ve' similar parts throughout the several views.neer each the thickness of a match-splint and Figure l is a plan view ofthe machine emof a width corresponding to the length of a bodying myinvention. Fig. 1 is a detail splint. I wish it understood, however,that sectional plan of a part of the cutters, illusthe means illustratedfor supplying veneer to 0 trating the manner in which the alternate thecutters is not particularly new, and I do splints are spread or forcedin opposite direonot confine myself to this means, as my intions as theyare cut. Fig. 2 is a cross-section vention relates chiefly to themechanism for of the same. Fig. 3 is a broken detail plan receiving,guiding, clamping, and heating the ofthe inner endguide-plate,showingthe mansplints after they are out. As shown, the

5 nerin which the splints are delivered into the stock 19 is pressedforward by a spring 20,-

grooves of the plate. Fig. 4 is a broken side though a weight or othermeans may be subelevation of a portion of the machine, showstituted, andthe strips 19 are adapted to be ing particularly the means for feedingthe pushed downward one by one through the slot dipping-frames throughthe machine and the 21 (see Fig. 5) in the bottom of the hopper 18,

50 means for working the plunger which pushes and as soon as the loweredge of the strip 10 pressed to one side.

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reaches the cutters 10 it is seized by them and quickly carried downwardand severed into splints.

The strips 19 are pushed downward by a plunger 22, (see Fig. 2,) whichreciprocates vertically and is carried by the cross-rod 23, whichconnects by means of pitmen 24 with the eccentric-straps 25, the latterbeing held on the faces of the eccentrics 26, which are secured to oneof the shafts 11, as shown best in Figs. 1 and 7. It will thus be seenthat the plunger 22, actuated by the eccentrics, will have a constantand regular up-and-down movement, and when a strip 19 is pushed down andthe plunger 22 rises the spring 20 forces the strips 19 forward, so thatanother comes to position beneath the plunger and above the slot 21.

When a strip of veneer has been cut by rotary cutters like the kindshown, the tendency is for the splints to stick between the cutters andto be carried around with them, the splints sticking alternately to thetwo sets of cuttersthat is, one splint will stick to the left-handcutter, the next to the righthand cutter, and so on. The reason for thisseparation of the splints, so that one is forced in one direction, thenext in the opposite direction, &c., is probably that cutters of thisclass are generally made as shown in Fig. 1", in which a pair of knivesenters between two opposite knives, the several knives of the cuttersoverlapping in pairs, as the drawings clearly show, and so the splintsare made slightly wedge shaped and naturally are This construction iscommon to cutters of this class and has always worked in the manner setforth, so that after the splints are out they are delivered in parallelrows and are separated row- To obviate this difficulty, rods 27 arepassed downward from the hopper 18 between the knives of the cutters 10,the rods lying in grooves 28 between the cutters and the lower ends ofthe rods being bent back slightly and secured to cross-bars 29. Thisarrangement prevents the splints from following the cutters and causesthem to be deposited endwise in regular rows, as shown in Fig. 3. Thesplints of each row aline rowwise, but not in the opposite direction, asthe drawings show.

When the splints are carried downward through the cutters 10, they arethrust endwisebetween the slats 31 of the dippingframe 30, which frame,as illustrated, represents what is known as the ordinary German frame,except that the slats 31 are beveled or reduced on their upper edges toenable the splints to be easily guided between them; but otherequivalent clamping-frames may be used in connection with my machine,

if desired. The frame, as shown, has the parallel slats 31 held to slideon rods 32 at the two sides of the frame, and when the frame is full,with the splints sticking trans versely through it, the slats 31 may betightened against the splints by the wedges 33, which are hung to slideon the rods 32 and which at the proper time are forced inward by theearns 34, which are formed on the ends of the arms 35, and which will beagain referred to below. 7

When the splints 39 are forced downward between the slats 31, the slatshold the two rows the correct distance apart for dipping, so that badheads will not result; but the splints in each row are too neartogether.

The mechanism described below separates the splints in the row and alsoprovides for heating them. As the splints go downward between the slats31 they enter grooves 37 in the top of the guide-plate 36, which liesflatwise on the machine-frame at a point; below the cutters 10, and asthe splints of the two rows do not aline the inner end of each groove 37is curved, as shown clearly in Fig. 3, so that at each discharge of thecutters two splints are delivered into each groove 37, one

being in the curved or inclined end and the other in the main part ofthe'groove. 'It will be seen, however, that as the slats 31 are pushedforward the splints will alse be 'c'arried forward, and after a shortmovement of the dipping-frame 30 the splints in the two To provide,however, for sepagrooves 37 are made to diverge, as shown clearly inFig. 1, until the part 40 "of the guide-plate 36 is reached, at whichpoint the grooves 37 become parallel, and when the travel of thedipping-fraiiie 30 has brought the splints to this point the divergenceof the grooves will have separated them sufficiently,

so that they will be in the proper position for dipping. Just as thelast end of the frame 30 reaches this parallel part 40 of the guideplatethe wedges 33 on opposite sides of the frame are pushed inward by thecam34 and the splints are clamped in place. I this part 40 of the plate36 are gasjets'41, (see Fig. 4,) which heat the plate hot, and as thesplints lie deep in the grooves 37 they are Beneath dried quickly andthoroughly not only-at the ends, but throughout the greater part oftheir length. Obviously this part 40 may he made of any necessarylength, and when the dipping-frames are taken from it the splints areready to dipin paraffin preparatory to being v i dipped in a firingcomposition. It is evident that the plate 36 may be heated throughoutits entire length, if desired. I have shown the plate 36 removable, itbeing supported on cross-bars 37*. (See Fig. 2.)

It is obvious that the frames 30 maybe fed into the machine from thefront end a'nd'fed 7 through the machine by many well-known devices; butI have illustrated what is asiin ple and very perfect means ofaccomplishingthis result. The slats 31 are pushed forward and at thesame time separated to the neces:

mounted in suitable bearings, and each shaft is provided with aratchet-wheel 44, which is engaged and turned by a pawl 45, each pawlbeing pivoted, as shown at 4:6, to the short arm of a bell-crank 47,which is pivoted on the machine-frame, as shown at 48, and thebell-crank is connected by pitmen 49 with the eccentric-straps alreadyreferred to. It will be seen, therefore, that when the eccentric-strapsdrop and carry down the plunger22 they will also actuate the bell-crank47, pawls 45, and ratchet-wheels 44, so that the shafts 43 and gear 42will be turned sufficiently to advance the dipping-frames the distanceof two slats, and consequently at every stroke of the plunger 22 thedippingframe is advanced, so as to receive the rows of splints 39, whichare cut by the cutters 10 on each descent of the plunger.

The above description shows that the machine is very complete andsimple, and it will be clearly understood that any of the variouswell-known dipping-frames can be substituted for the German frame whichI have seen fit to illustrate without afiecting the principle of theinvention and that the usual continuous carriers can be made to connectwith the part 40, so as to receive the dippingframes, if desired. I amwell aware of the fact that the dipping-frame, the cutting mechanism,and the stock-feed are not new, and, as before remarked, my inventionlies chiefly in the arrangementof the guide and heating plate and thecombination between this plate and a suitable cutting and clampingmechanism. It will be seen that the heating-plate referred to can beused for heating and drying splints without regard to the means forholding the splints, the only thing necessary for this purpose beingthat some means be provided for holding the splints essentiallyperpendicular to the plate, and when used for drying simply the groovesin the plate may be parallel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A match-machine comprising aguideplate having grooves therein, cutting mechanism adapted to deliversplints endwise into the aforesaid grooves so that the splints standperpendicular to the plate, and a dippingframe movable between thecutting mechanism and the grooves so as to clamp the ends of the splintswhich project from the grooves.

2. In a match-machine, the combination of the grooved guide-plate, ofsplint-clamping mechanism movable over the face of the guideplate, andsplint-cutting mechanism arranged to discharge the cut splints directlyinto the clamping means, and into the grooves of the guide-plate so thatthe splints are held essentially perpendicular to the plate.

3. In a match-machine, the combination with the guide-plate havingdiverging grooves therein, said grooves at their inner ends being curvedor inclined, of cutting mechanism arranged to deliver a row of splintsin the inner or curved ends of the grooves and another row in thestraight portion of the grooves, and a holding or clamping device togrip the ends of the splints which project from the grooves.

4. In a match-machine, a combination with the guide plate havingdiverging grooves therein, of the holding-frame movable over the face ofthe grooves, means for delivering splints into the dipping-frame andgrooves, and means as the wedges of the frame and the cams of the platefor locking the dippingframe, substantially as described.

5. In a match-machine, the combination with the guide-plate havinggrooves which diverge for a part of their length and then run parallel,of the dipping-frame movable over the face of the guide-plate, thewedges of the frame to close it, and cams or abutments located oppositethe junction of the diverging and parallel portions of the grooves toengage the wedges and lock the dipping-frame, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM F. HUTCHINSON.

Witnesses:

WARREN B. HUTOHINSON, W. W. Bros.

